{"id":1950542,"date":"2025-08-09T02:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1950542"},"modified":"2025-08-09T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:05:11","slug":"meet-16-year-old-julia-butters-who-stars-in-freakier-friday-with-lindsay-lohan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meet-16-year-old-julia-butters-who-stars-in-freakier-friday-with-lindsay-lohan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet 16-year-old Julia Butters, who stars in Freakier Friday with Lindsay Lohan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Julia Butters is only 16, but she has already built a Hollywood r\u00e9sum\u00e9 any actor would envy. With experience working with Quentin Tarantino, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg, Butters is now stepping into her first main character role as Harper Coleman in Freakier Friday alongside Lindsay Lohan<\/span><\/a>, Jamie Lee Curtis and Chad Michael Murray<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Julia Butters, Lindsay Lohan, Sophia Hammons and Chad Michael Murray at the Los Angeles premiere of their film Freakier Friday on July 22. Photo: Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Butters made her acting debut in 2014 with an appearance in TV crime show Criminal Minds and delivered a noteworthy performance in her portrayal of Anna-Kat Otto, the sweet but anxious daughter in the sitcom American Housewife. Butters then got her breakout moment with a role in Tarantino\u2019s 2019 film Once Upon a Time \u2026 in Hollywood \u2013 a project that earned her a ticket to the Oscars, where she made headlines for bringing a turkey sandwich in her designer bag.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you need to know about Butters, one of Hollywood\u2019s most promising young actresses.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t know who Leonardo DiCaprio was before she worked with him<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Julia Butters worked with Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Once Upon a Time \u2026 in Hollywood. Photo: @julia_butters\/Instagram<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

When Butters filmed Once Upon a Time \u2026 in Hollywood, she was only 10 \u2013 far too young to have seen any Tarantino films or recognise her A-list co-stars. In fact, at the premiere of her own movie, she had to leave during some age-inappropriate scenes.<\/p>\n

During her audition for the part of Trudi Fraser, Tarantino handed her all 21 pages of the scene and gave her an overview of the character. When he mentioned writing the script, the young actress responded with charming candour: \u201cOh, you wrote it? Well done,\u201d she recalled in an interview with Esquire.<\/p>\n

She was cast in The Fabelmans on her 12th birthday<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Julia Butters worked with her idol, director Steven Spielberg, on The Fabelmans. Photo: @julia_butters\/Instagram<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Few receive birthday gifts as memorable as Butters did when she turned 12. In April 2021, Butters answered a call from her idol, Steven Spielberg<\/span><\/a>. The director wished her a happy birthday and offered her the role of Reggie Fabelman, the character inspired by his real-life sister Anne, in his semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julia Butters is only 16, but she has already built a Hollywood r\u00e9sum\u00e9 any actor would envy. With experience working with Quentin Tarantino, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg, Butters is now stepping into her first main character role as Harper Coleman in Freakier Friday alongside Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis and Chad Michael Murray. Jamie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1950543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[28008,21796,22481,25517,310801,21818,21738,311424,311423,22505,23239,25423,28927],"class_list":["post-1950542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-hong-kong","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sport","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Meet-16-year-old-Julia-Butters-who-stars-in-Freakier-Friday-with.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}